Its not a 'civil war' when foreigners are sending mercenaries into a country to murder civilians, in the attempt to dupe others into believing that that government ought to be toppled.

Israel is useing the U.S.A. who is using the U.A.E. who are using foreign mercenaries (who are pretending to be Syrian protesters) to topple the Syrian government and further de-stabilize the arab world.

The arabs are a thorn in Israels thigh, and a stepping block to their ultimate goals.

Maybe the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. What would Israel gain here.

Disregarding the racist ranting and unfounded conspiracy paranoia of your statement. Both sides of the civil war have the same opinion of Israel. So regardless of who prevails, nothing will change for Israel and it may even get worse for them, as it has in Egypt.

After coming to office, Obama promised the Moslem world that he will shift from the Bush policies and Change
(a) Palestinian issue as his top priority
(b) Shut down Guantanamo hell-hole
(c) End drone attack on the Pakis
We know that he did none of these things. Instead he cleverly led the neocons in the White House to set Moslems on Moslems to reinforce the Regime change policy of Bush.

(a) The Palestinian issue is virtually intractable.
(b) It's not the Guantanamo FACILITY that's the problem, it's the enhanced interrogation tactics (or torture, depending on the severity and how you'd like to describe it) that occurred (note the past tense).
(c) I don't actually remember such a promise.

While the US are leading Nato to remove the last vestige of Russian influence in the Middle East, Putin & his SCO pals are doing are returning the tit-for-tat in the Great Game of Central Asia by even inaugurating the US crony's Kaizai as member.

Yup blood has flowed from the patriots backed by the Hegemon and Nato. As reported in the media, the pious Wahabbi patriots in Qatar, Saudi, Jordan etc. have been auctioning off their children to be suicide-bombers in Syria. Yet more patriotic blood is shed as the Al Queda-linked patriots have been using human shield to fight the forces of the crony.

Well, we are on our way to witnessing a repeat of some of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century. As expected, the callous and the cynical are out to tell us (i.e. those advocating military action) that our desire to stop this brutal, state sponsored violence is just hypocritical American imperialism. What about Iraq, and Vietnam? they demand, with plenty of self-righteousness.

But they are silent on some other events which make up our collective historical memory, namely the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the genocides in Rwanda and in the Balkans. Times when something could have been done but nothing was, when proud democracies fell over themselves to make excuses for inaction, even though afterwards it was always: "never again!"

But our cowardly leaders are already playing the familiar game of avoiding responsibility. Since when does the United States of America defer to autocratic Russia and communist China on the value of human life? There should be no question that America will use its armed forces to put a stop to human butchery. And if Obama won't do it, I will vote for whoever will.

Intervention would be much too costly. Dabbling with airpower won't do. It would lead to an even bigger cock-up than Iraq or Afghanistan. Only a lot of boots on the ground could prevent Sunni and Shiite going for each others throat. Too bad for the Syrians. The only nice aspect is Putin loosing a lot of face.

The Western Media has cleverly made it out as a war between the Sunni and Shiite. The West and foreign Wahhabis are certainly fanning it by importing arms and terrorists. The real war is the Wahhabis through its Al Queda franchise seeking to establish a Golden Caliphate of democracy through the Middle East.
The 2nd in command of Al Queda has revealed that they have been carrying out these terrorism in Syria over the past 2 years with funds and arms from Obamaic West and his Wahhabi allies. Now according to BBC reports, the roguish Putin is supplying attack helicopters to Assad crony to counter the Al Quedaist forces from the Wahhabi states supported by the neocons in the White House.

"Won't you please come to Chicago,
No one else can take your place."
Chicago - CSNY
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No Cease Fire in Chicago, USA

(CBS News) There are 228 dead: That's the number of murders this year in Chicago. It's nearly twice as many as the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over these last six months. And the number of deaths is up 35 percent over the same period last year.

UN effectively says "Let the Civil war begin." Arms and Al Queda-linked terrorists can flow from the West via Wahabbi states like Jordan, Yemen, Saudi, Qatar etc. to Syria on one side, and from Russia and Iran allies to Assad. If the Nato intervention is kept out by Veto, the outcome will be interesting.

In case you haven't noticed, the civil war is raging for many months already, fueled by the Sunni-Shiite rift. Only now, regretably, the UN is ready to admit it, and call it for what it is.

Remember Iraqi Kurds under the Ba'ath party rule? - I guess the day that we'll see WMD in action as part of this winner-takes-it-all kind of Syrian civil war gets closer. Only that this time the rebels may put their hands on WMD as well.

All these are caused by Uncle Sam.What gives authority to America to do this?Thera are a lot of such in-civil-war countries in Africa ,why does not Amercia go there? In a word,it is for strategy.
Africa is not important in strategy. Such as democracy anf human rights are all pretenses.

Why not to go with the usual solution? Western powers go in to protect civilians (the opposition of course). Then they go on bombing Assad's forces until they are in little pieces. Last but not least, bomb Assad's car when he is trying to escape and let the Free Syrian Army finish him in front of lots of cameras. Take his body to a place were everyone could take pictures for one week.And that's it, a new Islamic Republic on the making.....

For decades now Arab propagandists brainwash the international public opinion that it is Israel being the source of Middle Eastern trouble, with its 'occupation', settlements, and all that bla bla excuses to keep the conflict go on.

It so happens, however, that according to the lowest Syrian casualties estimates of over 10,000 Syrian dead in the 15 months Syrian civil war, are ABOUT DOUBLE the estimates of Syrian casualties in all armed conflicts it had with Israel IN THE PAST 64 YEARS (!)

The proportion of Syrian casualties tells you more than anything else where the REAL problems of the Arab world are. With this cross sectarian violence, in which no one is a Maria Theresa, including the rebels, while the Arab League is practically useless, it clears up the mess the Arab world is in.

As per the Palestinians you talk about - you can see in the link below the way the Palestinians educate their younger ones, those young innocent children's murderous breast feeding, and you understand that (putting aside the 'occupation' terminology's correctness) the Israeli dilemma is not if to occupy or not to occupy, but rather to occupy or to risk getting occupied… and Israel doesn't occupy Gaza anymore, as you know.

"She also accused the Free Syrian Army of endangering children by recruiting them to help with frontline medical duties."

Considering the circumstances, is using children in support roles really so bad? Maybe we ought to think about children in combat...are child soldiers really deplorable in all circumstances, or does it become acceptable when you're fighting for a right cause and the situation is desperate enough? (Then again, the children here are being used for medical support and aren't going into actual combat...yet.)

Children and women are recruited as suicide bombers and human shield for the regime change. While Al Queda jihadists are doing the fighting, the neocon in White House is still trying to cobble together a viable grouping from the fractious Oppositions for the Regime Change.

Why do the Arabs do nothing?
And the Arab League does nothing?
And world Muslims just shrug their shoulders?

Answer: Insha'Allah: IT IS GOD'S WILL.

Man is innocent. And Men must accept God's will.

One bright spot: this does not involve a Western country of infidels killing pious Muslims. Or desecration of a Koran. Or destruction of a mosque. And it is quite a different bird from Afghanistan, Iraq or Palestine. The West will hesitate to intervene or just ignore it for a decade or two.

Muslims killing Muslims => Insha'Allah. Just make certain the corpses are buried by sundown, but otherwise it's all good.

The deadliest enemy of a Muslim today, is a Muslim of a rival sect.

And the Arab World and Middle East is the most violent region of the world. And most war ravaged. And most terrorized.

Tolerance is lacking in the Arab World.

And Revenge is the favorite pastime.

Non-intervention in Muslim Civil Wars in Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Kurdistan/Turkey will kill more innocent Muslims than NATO Interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts COMBINED. Sitting on your hands may be the most effective fighting technique today.

Being religious and pious is not enough. Even Hitler attended church regularly....you must practice non-violence, kindness, tolerance, and peacefulness.

There's a lot of blood yet to come, and the group of Sunnis who end up in charge at the end will be a hard, bitter group. It will be bad for Iran and Russia, but it won't be good for the US, Europe or Israel either. Expect turmoil in Lebanon. It's hard to say what can be done in the next few weeks (let others supply arms) but Turkey, the US and the EU should start preparing for the rebuilding, staged from Turkey, and they should prepare to be generous. Set up and start asking to bring in relief caravans now, even though Assad will likely say no. Russia and China might even go for a UN mandate to deliver relief supplies to the cities under attack. Trying to save lives and eventually rebuild is the only moral high ground the West can stand on in this conflict. Supporting the rebels with arms or air support is fraught with risk, as it would be not at all surprising to start seeing rebel massacres of Alawites starting soon. This will be very ugly.

"Supporting the rebels with arms or air support is fraught with risk, as it would be not at all surprising to start seeing rebel massacres of Alawites starting soon."

Arms are risky, but they're going to end up in Syria whether we provide them or not. That being said, I don't want the Wrst giving arms to the rebels. Any potential massacre the rebels might carry out would get blamed on the US and that's always annoying.

As for air support- I'm not sure that's as risky for the same reasons.
Syrian air defenses are pretty much incapable of interfering with a NATO air offensive. I doubt that destroying Syrian tanks and artillery would be particularly difficult to pull off. Anything trickier than that might lead to civilian casualties though, so there's probably not going to be much appetite for directly supporting the rebels in firefights.

Hey, what a great idea. Why don't you quickly contact Kofi Annan and tell him that the solution would be mass large scale enforced conversion to Christianity.

Then it won't matter about the fact the Syrian borders are largely a colonial creation that messily cut across ethnic, religious and cultural groups; that the only way the country was held in relative stability was by a blood-ridden police state; that any semblance of civil society was brutally repressed leaving only religious authorities as the source of any non-state guidance; that years of instability in the region have fueled sectarian violence and mutual mistrust. Because hey, as long you believe in good ol' Jesus Christ our lord savior and have a nice leather bound New Testament in hand, then somehow it's all good.

I just hope the people of Syria, and a future democratic Syrian government, hold Russia and China accountable for their role in this.

Not that western governments have a spotless record when it comes to opposing oppressive dictatorships, but at least they have their limits. At least they have some standards beyond which they are not happy to just stand idly by, or actively prevent others from helping.

And what are the western world limits? Apparently there are non since the butcher Assad and his cronies are operating freely when western diplomats multiply adjectives and adverbs to "condem" the situation and world leaders worry more about being re-elected than stopping this butchery! I wonder if this was in the 1940s if today's leaders will stop Hitler. Shame on you "civilized, western world" for doing nothing as the Syrian people are being mercilessly murdered! Shame on you that 6 billion people on this earth cannot stop Assad that says a lot about our moral compass! We should be daily pressing our leaders to act and stop multiplying adjectives to the point of running out of new ones. By doing nothing you are also accomplice, please stop blaming Russia and China alone.

But see, for all your theatrical expressions of outrage, people just like you complain about "western imperialism" and "colonialism" and "warmongers" and such when we do intervene, with equally theatrical expressions of outrage.

The west has progressed to having a high threshold for intervention. Perhaps it is currently too high. But having a low threshold for intervention has caused a lot of problems in the world, too.

If mass murders are not a high treshold enough then this world is in serious trouble, a moral decline usually precedes a decline of a society. A question for you: what do we stand for in the western society? If we don't believe in the value of life and freedom for others we might as well forget them for ourselves.
"In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson